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It is a singularity in the nature of the English that they are strangely addicted to all kinds of pleasure, above all other nations. The city of London alone hath four or five companies of players with their particular theaters capable of [holding] many thousands [of spectators], wherein they all play every day of the…

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How to Build a Pyramid

Exactly how did the Egyptians build the Pyramid of Khufu and its two great successors on the Giza Plateau? That question has been debated at least since the time of Herodotus. Many a person has looked upon what the Egyptians are alleged to have wrought, compared it with the early date which historians assign to it…